“Museumsare trusted sources of scientific information, some of
our most important resources for educating children and shaping public
understanding,”this letter
declared. “We are concerned that the integrity of these institutions is
compromised by association with special interests who obfuscate climate
science, fight environmental regulation, oppose clean energy legislation, and
seek to ease limits on industrial pollution.”

Well, then they wouldn’t want anything to do with the likes
of the Climagate
authors who admitted “obfuscating climate science,” or promoters of the false
“hockey stick” graph that conjured historical warming trends out of tortured
data, or former NASA
scientist James Hansen, whose global warming predictions were off by a good 400
percent, would they?

But of course, that’s not the kind of “obfuscation” they
have in mind. Hansen is the first signatory on the letter. Their
example of a forbidden museum sponsor is, of course, David Koch of the Koch
Brothers, who loom so large as devils in the left’s theology. The writers
of this letter definitely know who their audience is and what sort of whistles
they respond to.

Even if we table the matter of whose theories have most
dramatically failed to comport with reality, the stated demand makes little
sense. Turning away donations from fossil-fuel companies and oil magnates
doesn’t hurt them very much – it would be a minor insult at worst. If
museums really want to hit Big Oil where it lives and be true to Church of
Global Warming mythology, they should immediately disconnect themselves from
all carbon-spewing energy sources, foregoing such decadent amenities as air
conditioning and extensive electric lighting. Refuse to admit patrons who
burn fossil fuels to visit the museums. Require all visitors to arrive by foot
or horseback, by ensuring there are no parking lots within several miles of
each museum. (No, electric cars are not acceptable. Where do
you think the electricity stored in the car battery comes from?) Power
the museums with nothing but solar panels and wind. The latter will be
tough on the local bird populations, but radical environmentalistsquickly made their peace with birds getting cut
to ribbons by wind turbines, didn’t they?

The response to this burst of irresponsible hysteria and
left-wing political trolling from the skeptical scientists of the CO2 Coalition is
a marvel of sweet reason and perspective. “The idea that the world can or
should abandon fossil fuels is deeply wrong-headed, not just from a scientific
perspective, but also from a humanitarian perspective,” the authors declare, as
they ask museum directors to ignore the call for divestment from oil companies.

“For thousands of years only a small fraction of mankind
lived well while the rest faced poverty, filth, hunger and disease. That has
all changed over the past century and a half, thanks to the use of fossil
fuels,” the CO2 Coalition scientists explain. “The benefits of low-cost and
abundant energy from fossil fuels have permitted a standard of living for most
of mankind that exceeds the wildest dreams of past elites. Today China, India
and other developing countries are lifting hundreds of millions of people out
of deprivation by the greater use of fossil fuels. In spite of these clear
benefits, a movement has emerged that demonizes fossil fuels and anyone who
questions the dogma that a near-term climate catastrophe is upon us. The letter
is a good example of the movement’s tactics.”

The responsible use of fossil fuels is a far cry from
the planet-destroying industrial nightmare posited by the climate cult, and
also from… well, whatever pre-industrial scenario the enemies of fossil fuel
envision. They’re remarkably shy about telling us what the ideal oil-free
world would look like, much less leading the way by living in it themselves.

Likewise, the much-demonized carbon dioxide is vital, not a
toxic substance to be eradicated at all costs. “At current CO2 levels of about
400 parts per million, the Earth remains in a CO2 famine compared to levels of
1,000 parts per million and higher that have prevailed since the Cambrian
period, some 550 million years ago. The world has already shown noticeable
‘greening’ because plants are growing better and more extensively due to the
modest increases of atmospheric CO2 seen over the past century,” the letter
states, noting that the doomsday forecasts of the 80s and
90s anticipated a world very different from the one we can see outside our
windows.

Rather than moderating these flawed apocalyptic predictions,
the climate change movement doubled down, shifting to shrill rhetoric about
“deniers” as a band of heretics funded by self-destructive tycoons, who
presumably think they can show themselves a good time and check out before the
much-delayed global warming Armageddon arrives. The letter describes the
hypocrisy of these complaints about money as “breathtaking,” since “orders of
magnitude more funding has been given by governments and foundations to organizations
and individuals charged with ‘scientifically’ proving the alleged evils of CO2
and inventing ways to cope with it.”

“Apparently the movement’s scientific case is so weak that
they feel threatened by any research that does not support their doctrine,” the
CO2 Coalition charges,
well-supported by the inability of the climate-change movement to attack
anything but the funding of research they don’t like.

Conversely, the signatories of the letter aren’t interested
in suppressing anyone’s work: “We applaud support for informative studies of
the climate, for example, ocean monitoring programs, satellite instruments, or
meteorological networks with high-quality data archives. This work needs no
defense from scientific challenges, regardless of the source of funding. The
honest scientists responsible for much of this excellent work cannot be blamed
for the excesses of the anti-fossil fuel movement.”

It’s a good rule of thumb that in a scientific debate, the
side screaming “SHUT UP!” is probably losing. Every young student hears
tales, sometimes of dubious historical accuracy, about how the forces of
benighted ignorance in centuries past would suppress dangerous ideas through
torture and imprisonment. The business of suppressing knowledge doesn’t
become more palatable when it’s done with online mobs, personal attacks on
skeptical scientists, political crusades, biased media, tedious lawsuits, and
threats to museum funding instead of thumbscrews.

Make no mistake, lives are on the line, no matter how
urbane today’s Grand Inquisitors of Climate pretend to be. “Without the
benefits of low-cost and abundant energy from fossil fuels, much of the world’s
poor today and in the future would be condemned to continued poverty, ignorance
and exploitation,” the CO2 Coalition letter
concludes. Why pay attention to anyone comfortable with that, especially
when their comforts include the abundant energy, technological sophistication,
plentiful food, and fossil-fuel guzzling transportation they would deny to so
many others?

Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh

Teresa Heinz
Kerry is a trustee emeritus at the Carnegie
Museums of Pittsburgh, an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), the vice chair for the H. John Heinz III Center for Science,
Economics and the Environment, and married to John F. Kerry.

Note: Foundation
to Promote Open Society was a funder for the Brookings Institution
(think tank), the Climate Reality
Project, the Center for American
Progress, the Natural Resources
Defense Council, and the Sundance
Institute.

George Soros
was the chairman for the Foundation to Promote Open Society, and a
supporter for the Center for American
Progress.

Albert
A. Gore Jr. is the chairman for the Climate
Reality Project, George T. Frampton
Jr. was his attorney, and his chief of staff was Ronald A. Klain.

Theodore
Roosevelt IV is a director at the Climate
Reality Project, a governing council member for the Wilderness Society, and a trustee at the American Museum of Natural History.

Sherwood L.
Boehlert is a director at the Climate
Reality Project, and was a trustee at the H. John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment.

Larry J.
Schweiger is a trustee at the H.
John Heinz III Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, a
director at the Climate Reality Project,
a director at the Blue-Green Alliance,
and was the president & CEO for the National
Wildlife Federation.

Alison M. Byers
was a trustee at the H. John Heinz III
Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, and is a director at the
National Wildlife Federation.

Carol M. Browner
was a director at the Climate Reality
Project, the energy czar for the Barack
Obama administration, an administrator for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and is a senior fellow,
director for the Center for American
Progress.

Hansjorg
Wyss is a director at the Center for
American Progress, and a governing council member for the Wilderness Society.

Janet
F. Haas was a governing council member for the Wilderness Society, and is a trustee at the University of Pennsylvania.

Ezekiel Emanuel
is the vice provost for the University
of Pennsylvania, Rahm I. Emanuel’s
brother, and was the health care policy adviser for the Barack Obama administration.

John
D. Podesta is the founder of the Center
for American Progress, a counselor for the Barack Obama administration, and a director at the Apollo Alliance.

Van
Jones was a senior fellow at the Center
for American Progress, a director at the Apollo Alliance, and a special adviser for green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental
Quality.

Cathleen Kelly
is a senior fellow at the Center for
American Progress, a deputy associate director for climate change
adaptation for the White House Council
on Environmental Quality, and a director of climate change policy for the Nature Conservancy.

George T.
Frampton Jr. was the chairman for the White
House Council on Environmental Quality, Albert A. Gore Jr’s attorney, and is a governing council member for
the Wilderness Society.

Crandall C. Bowles
is a governing council member for the Wilderness
Society, and a trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank).

Richard
C. Blum is a governing council member for the Wilderness Society, married to Senator Dianne Feinstein, and an honorary trustee for the Brookings Institution (think tank).

Teresa Heinz
Kerry is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a trustee emeritus at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, the vice chair for the H. John Heinz III Center for Science,
Economics and the Environment, and married to John F. Kerry.

John
F. Kerry is married to Teresa Heinz
Kerry, the secretary at the U.S.
Department of State for the Barack
Obama administration, and Cameron F.
Kerry’s brother.

Cameron F. Kerry
is John F. Kerry’s brother, and a
fellow at the Brookings Institution
(think tank).

Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Rahm
I. Emanuel is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, the Chicago (IL) mayor,
Ezekiel Emanuel’s brother, and was
the White House chief of staff for the Barack
Obama administration.

R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and was a trustee at the Museum
of Science and Industry.

Newton
N. Minow is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.

Larry J.
Schweiger is a director at the Blue-Green
Alliance, a director at the Climate
Reality Project, a trustee at the H. John Heinz III Center for Science,
Economics and the Environment, and was the president & CEO for the National Wildlife Federation.

Alison M. Byers
was a trustee at the H. John Heinz III
Center for Science, Economics and the Environment, and is a director at the
National Wildlife Federation.

Reality Coalition
is a partner with the National Wildlife
Federation, the Sierra Club, and
the Natural Resources Defense Council.

Jessica Tuchman Mathews is a director at the Nuclear Threat Initiative (think tank),
was the president of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank),
and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Ed Griffin’s interview with
Norman Dodd in 1982

(The investigation into the
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace uncovered the plans for population
control by involving the United
States in war)

Teresa Heinz
Kerry is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a trustee emeritus at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, the vice chair for the H. John Heinz III Center for Science,
Economics and the Environment, and married to John F. Kerry.

John
F. Kerry is married to Teresa Heinz
Kerry, the secretary at the U.S.
Department of State for the Barack
Obama administration, and Cameron F.
Kerry’s brother.

Andrew Carnegie
was the founder of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace (think
tank), the founder of the Carnegie
Museums of Pittsburgh, and the founder of the Carnegie Institution for Science.

Cristian Samper
is a trustee at the Carnegie Institution
for Science, the president & CEO for the Wildlife Conservation Society, was a director at the World Wildlife Fund, a director at the Nature Conservancy, a director at the National Museum of Natural History, and
an acting secretary for the Smithsonian
Institution.

Joseph R. Biden Jr.
is a regent for the Smithsonian Institution,
and the vice president for the United
States.

John G. Roberts
Jr. is the chancellor for the Smithsonian
Institution, and the chief justice for the U.S. Supreme Court.

David M.
Rubenstein is a regent at the Smithsonian
Institution, a fellow at the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences, a board member National Museum of American History, a board member for the National Museum of Natural History, the
president of the Economic Club of
Washington, and a co-chairman for the Brookings
Institution (think tank).

Vernon E. Jordan
Jr. the president of the Economic
Club of Washington, is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution
(think tank), Valerie B. Jarrett’s
great uncle, a director at the American Friends of Bilderberg (think
tank), and a 2008 Bilderberg conference participant (think tank).

Teresa Heinz
Kerry is an honorary trustee at the Brookings
Institution (think tank), a trustee emeritus at the Carnegie Museums of Pittsburgh, the vice chair for the H. John Heinz III Center for Science,
Economics and the Environment, and married to John F. Kerry.

Cyrus F.
Freidheim Jr. is an honorary trustee at the Brookings Institution (think tank), and a member of the Commercial Club of Chicago.

Valerie B. Jarrett
is Vernon E. Jordan Jr’s great niece, the senior
adviser for the Barack Obama
administration, and a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago.

William
M. Daley is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, a trustee at the Third
Way, and was the chief of staff for the Barack Obama administration.

Ronald A. Klain
is a trustee at the Third Way, the coordinator
of government Ebola efforts for the Barack
Obama administration, married to Monica
Medina, and was Albert A. Gore Jr’s
chief of staff.

Monica
Medinais married to
Ronald A. Klain, and was a principal
deputy under secretary for the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.

Kathryn D.
Sullivan is the administrator for the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the under secretary for the U.S. Department of Commerce, was an astronaut
for the National Aeronautics and Space
Administration (NASA), and the president & CEO for the Center of Science & Industry.

Penny S. Pritzker
is the secretary for the U.S. Department
of Commerce, a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, wasthe
national finance chair, fundraiser for the 2008
Barack Obama presidential campaign, a co-chair for the 2009 Barack Obama inaugural committee, a fundraiser, national
co-chair for the 2012 Barack Obama
presidential campaign, a contributor for the 2013 Barack Obama inaugural committee, and the host for the Barack Obama fund-raising dinner, 7/2/2008.

Rahm
I. Emanuel is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, the Chicago (IL) mayor,
Ezekiel Emanuel’s brother, and was
the White House chief of staff for the Barack
Obama administration.

R.
Eden Martin is the president of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, counsel at Sidley
Austin LLP, and was a trustee at the Museum
of Science and Industry.

Newton
N. Minow is a member of the Commercial
Club of Chicago, and a senior counsel at Sidley Austin LLP.

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